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(FB Post of Prof. Ma Christina Astorga, Ph.D)
I am both ennobled and crestfallen by those who sent me messages, asking me to consider running as president of the country. One asked me to seek the direction of the Spirit, and that he wouldβ¦ https://t.co/dOqI1b6PVWtwitter.com/i/web/status/1β¦
Shall we turn to the @TeamAFP ? Shall they put their allegiance to our flag and to our constitution above their allegiance to authority-- an authority that has no legitimate claim to power? Shall they withdraw their support for a commander-in-chief and president whose position isβ¦ twitter.com/i/web/status/1β¦
@TeamAFP How will all of this end? I do not know. And neither any of you know. We just put one foot in front of the other, as we slug it out every day. Winning the war is no guarantee. We fight even when victory is not certain, for the only thing that is certain is the reason why weβ¦ twitter.com/i/web/status/1β¦
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A long thread from the FB of Eliseo Rio Jr. @ChairGEGarcia
The Commission on Elections (@COMELEC ) and its Automated Election System provider @smartmatic, have made a change in their protocols, which prevented the tracing of the actual source of transmission of votes from
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precincts that can potentially be used to tamper with the results as warned by then Senate President Tito Sotto and Senator Ping Lacson.
And here are the proofs that the results of the 2022 Election were TAMPERED OR RIGGED, as warned. In the βRaw Filesβ (gzip) uploaded by
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COMELEC on their website last March 23, 2022, these observations were made. In the first hour of counting by the Transparency Server, several precinct Election Returns (ER) received from different VCMs HAVE THE SAME IP ADDRESS!
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I believe these are the three main issues, among others, that hound the #MarcosInvestmentFund (MIF):
1.CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE. Filipinos and foreign investors alike have a crisis of confidence on the people behind the MIF and those who will be managing it.
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They do not trust the Marcos-Romualdez political dynasty and their cronies to run the show considering the family's sordid track record of corruption and plunder. This explains why the pledges that the host countries made to FBBM in his 11 or so visits there have not been
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translated into reality. Likewise, this is the reason why there has been widespread opposition from the more enlightened sectors of Filipino society against the idea.
2.VIABILITY. The Constitution requires the test of economic viability before a GOCC could be created.
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Under Section 12 of the #MarcosInvestmentFund law, admin costs are limited to 2% of the capital. That looks small on paper. But considering that target capitalization of the fund is in the neighborhood of β±500B, that would amount to β±10B.
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That's more than the combined budget of P7 Billion allocated to Lung Center of the Philippines (P835.2 M), National Kidney and Transplant Institute (P1.7 B) , Philippine Childrenβs Medical Center (P2.1 B), Philippine Heart Center (P2.1 B) for the year 2023.
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The more capital they are able to shake down from government institutions the more money for the salaries and emoluments for the officials of this Fund headed by Finance Secretary Diokno - who will not even be breaking sweat, considering that theirs are not full-time jobs,
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Dedicated to @loren_legarda for giving us a good for nothing being!
AntiqueΓ±o Ingenuity: The AIs of Paliwan π
The top 12 best Paliwan memes are a reflection of how AntiqueΓ±os can see the humorous side of a stressful situation, and deal with a calamity with resiliency.
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We've also discovered the hidden talents of AntiqueΓ±os in social media editing.
These memes were not only ideas or a trend that spread by means of imitation from netizen to netizen within our Karay-a culture, but it carried a symbolic meaning representing a particular
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significant social issue.
Why are AntiqueΓ±os so immersed and interactive with these current memes of Paliwan? Is this because we feel hopeless with the situation? Is this because we feel powerless? Something to think about π€
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How the Marcos-Romualdez faction checkmated the Duterte-Arroyo faction: 1. Arroyo wanted to be Speaker but BBM chose his cousin, Martin Romualdez instead. 2. Sara Duterte wanted to be appointed as DND Secretary but BBM appointed her as DepEd Secretary instead.
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Both the posts of Speaker and DND Secretary are powerful and strategic. The former has the power of the purse while the latter has the power of the gun. 3. Speaker Romualdez, most possibly with the clearance of BBM, removed Arroyo as Senior Deputy Speaker to prevent
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the latter from using the position as a launchpad to mount a coup against the former.
The power of the purse and automatically the source of largesse, i.e.pork barrel, to congressmen is now tightly ensconced in the hands of the Marcos-Romualdez faction.
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BBM is ramming down on the throats of the Filipino people his family's racket, the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) by certifying as urgent the Senate Bill creating it. While we were sleeping, his cohorts in the Senate are reportedly restoring the GSIS and SSS Pension Funds
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and Pag-IBIG Funds as among the sources of the MIF. The proposed use of these funds by the MIF were vehemently opposed by the GSIS, SSS and Pag-IBIG members.They feared rightfully that their lifetime savings deducted from their salaries in their working years would end
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up in the pockets of the plunderous Marcos and Romualdez families and their corrupt accomplices.The members' protest compelled the House of Representatives to remove the pension funds from their version of the bill.
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